Affective demonstratives and the division of pragmatic labor
Proceedings of the 17th Amsterdam colloquium conference on Logic, language and meaning
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The purpose of this paper is to shed light on a phenomenon concerning the German first person singular pronoun ich which challenges the standard view on the semantics of first person singular pronouns, i.e. that they are always speaker-referential. The presented data shows a non-standard use of first person singular ich which I analyze to have a similar semantics to the German impersonal (generic) pronoun man. The analysis for non-standard ich is shown to be modifiable to also model the deictic use of ich. Finally, I bring up some related problems that merit further investigation.